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'-I.',": .. ww+r<:: ' . to his taxi at the Clyde Line pier a Mrs. Gertrude Godfrey, who descended at 62 East Thirty-fourth Street, paid her fare, tipped him a dime, and went in- to the building, leaving $1,5 00 worth of jewelry behind her, in a small bag. Ð' Amico discovered the jewels after driving several blocks and took them back to the lady, pondering the singular absent-mindedness of women who re- turn from trips at sea. He refused the twenty-five-cent tip Mrs. Godfrey of- fered him, submitted to an ecstatic hug, and listened politely while she explained that Honesty is its own Reward. D' A- mico ran into another reporter and was photographed and interviewed again. Some of the newspapers made a note to keep an eye on him; it might be worth while checking up now and then on this taxidriver who was not only an hon- est man but a singularly fated one. On January 18th, 1932, D'Amico, sure enough, figured in the news again. This time, however, he had not found any ( jewels. A truant officer calling at the Ð' Amico apartment found Santo and his wife and their three children so des- tItute that he gave the cabman some money of his own and went out and bought eggs and milk for the children. Ð' Amico, it turned out, no longer had his fleet of cabs; he was only a driver for one of the large companies now, and he had been able to earn not more than $8 a week for many months. The fam- ily's home, on the fifth floor of a squalid tenement at 70 East Seventh Street, was neat and well scrubbed, but the furniture was broken and the children's clothes were threadbare. The Ð' Arnicas still live at 7 a East Seventh Street, but now they are seven; back in 1933 Gloria was born, and a new baby arrived last winter. Santo gave up cab-driving three years ago and tried to find a job as a private chauf- feur or a bus-driver, but he didn't suc- ceed. N ow he is on relief. Last win- ter his only work was shovelling snow. ..-\.11 his children are good-looking and bright. "Sonny," the baby for whom Mrs. Morgan gave the honest driver the $5 gold piece, is now twelve years old. Grace is ten, Annette eight, and Gloria three; the new baby is a boy, named Joseph. The oldest girl, a pret-' ty child with black curly hair, learned to play the piano well when the D' Ami- cos still had their piano, and she can tap-dance, too, or could if the soles of her shoes were not worn out. In spite of everything, Mrs. D'Amico gets an- gry if anyone suggests her husband should have kept the Morgan and the Godfrey jewels. "He is a good example for the children. They are all honest," she says, proudly. D'Amico himself has grown a little bitter. "The streets are full of honest. men," he told us when we called on him, "and that is why they are there." But if he had it to do over again he would return the jewels. He has no doubt about that. His in- tegrity gives him a clear conscience, he says, and the certainty that if he should ever get work he would always be fair to his employer and to himself. Hon- esty, as Mrs. Godfrey said, is its own reward. -JARED L. MANLEY . When ,ve found a dam .w'hich, on the basis of man-days, cost $50,000, but ,vould not hold any ,v'ater, and then another $50,000 ,vas put in making the dam twice the necessary ,v'idth, "'''e made up our minds there must be some inefficiency in the planning of it.-J ournal of Forestry. There you go, jumping to conclu- . Slons.